• Restoration services to domestic, industrial and commercial properties due to water damage, fire damage, sewerage ingress and mould.• Demolition/removal of drywall and insulation, cement render, skirtings, carpet/underlay, and kitchen/office cabinetry.• Remove effects of smoke/water damage; dirt, soot, stains, mildew, and moisture.• Use of power/hand tools, chemical solutions, and elevated work platforms.

• Improved department design dexterity and turnaround for client feedback by introducing a registry, to efficiently track client supplied mine plan designs.• Improved format and detail of short term mine plans for hydraulic excavator fleet, thereby improving visual readability for mine operation personnel to better communicate the information required to safely complete the task.• Improved estimates of blasted stock by conducting post-blast swell factor studies, and inferring stratigraphic clay profiles from surveyed highwall scans and digital photography. This improved the confidence of the short and medium term schedule.• Developed plans that focused on work areas optimised for the equipment fleet, or alternatively an optimised mining sequence for an alternate equipment fleet to safely and efficiently operate in the work area.• Developed a descriptive how to guide for creating short term mine plans in Microsoft PowerPoint, with emphasis on the plans distinctive format and details for different hydraulic excavator classes operating in different material types. • Assisted Graduate Mining Engineers with technical mine design through knowledge development and sharing.

• Developed water management plan that helped mine personnel with wet weather preparedness and effective resource allocation. The results saw improved wet weather recovery, and increased operational hours of the fleet.• Developed short and medium term topsoil stripping schedules, improved strategic allocation of topsoil fleet resources, and improved downstream mining fleet productivity.• Designed and optimised open pit strip and dump designs in Vulcan.• Assisted in short term truck and shovel fleet planning.• Designed and optimised bulk dozer push plans in Vulcan.• Reconciled performance of surveyed bulk dozer push productivity, reduced material rehandle costs, and improved dozer push productivity.• Reconciled performance of surveyed cast blast.

• Long-term mine planning assistant; pit and dump designs.• Collaborated and developed a long-term topsoil and rehabilitation plan for Lake Vermont to meet site and client requirements, using Vulcan, and Microsoft Excel.

• Designed and optimised drill patterns in Vulcan.• Validated drill and blast shift data.• Analysed drill data, and modelled coal seams in Vulcan and cBLAST• Designed blast hole loading in Vulcan and cBLAST.• Designed and simulated blast timing (initiation) sequence in SHOTPlus.• Maintained short term drill and blast schedule.• Monitored sound and vibration of blast performance.• Reconciled blast performance.

• Vacation work during final year at UNSW.• Investigated and documented state of progressive rehabilitation at quarry.• Liaised with landowner and geotechnical consultants to understand preferences for post-closure land use, and advice regarding final landform stability and remediation.• Investigated industry best-practice, and theory for final landform stability, remediation, and closure.• Analysed and recommend options for final landform stability and remediation.• Produced final report.

December 2009 – February 2010 (3 months) | Northmead, NSW

November 2007 – January 2008 (3 months) | Silverwater, NSW